The city’s ride on the Chapter 9 bankruptcy roller coaster hit a bump in court Wednesday, and there are other twists and turns immediately ahead that could either catapult Detroit’s recovery into overdrive or spin the city into further turmoil.

On the bright side, a massive anti-blight blitz is now under way, with 75 three-member teams fanning out across the city with mobile devices, collecting data on properties all over the city to help speed removal or repair for Detroit’s blighted structures.

“We’re either going to get this done or we’re going to die trying,” Dan Gilbert, the Quicken Loans founder and co-chairman of the Detroit blight removal task force, said Wednesday. “For probably the first time in Western civilization in a major metro area, you’re going to have large parcels of vacant pristine land that have paved streets, utilities of all sorts, cable, phone, water, sewer — everything at affordable land prices.”

Meanwhile, the critical hand-off of some authority from Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr to Mayor-elect Mike Duggan is about to start in earnest — as soon as Duggan takes office in two weeks, not next September when Orr’s time as EM ends.

If those two men can function as an efficient tag team — Duggan on fixing operational issues while Orr deals with bankruptcy, creditors and labor contracts — Detroit could be on the road to recovery.

That’s a big if, of course, depending not only the personalities and egos of Duggan and Orr, but also on the availability of cash and the outcome of myriad possible legal challenges.

Which brings us back to Wednesday’s hiccup, when Judge Steven Rhodes urged the city of Detroit to renegotiate a proposed debt settlement with two global banks, suspending a trial over whether to approve the deal. If Rhodes’ decision delays the flow of cash into the city from a $350-million debtor-in-possession loan deal that Orr had cut with Barclays bank, it won’t matter how well Duggan and Orr get along, if they’ve got no cash to work with.

Similarly, the anti-blight offensive, while it sounds like a fabulous tonic for Detroit’s long-suffering neighborhoods, is also fraught with potential obstacles — starting with skepticism about whether the long-standing divide between the corporate-led recovery in downtown and Midtown can spread to the rest of a depopulated and blight-marred city.

At a blight conference Wednesday at Marygrove College, it was clear that community leaders from pastors to environmental activists had gotten the word that a serious campaign that will change the face of their communities is on the launch pad — and they had plenty to say.

“This is a major, major opportunity,” said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch NAACP, as he urged the blight task force to ensure that Detroit companies and residents are tapped for contracts and jobs associated with building demolition and repairs. “We don’t want two Detroits. We have been preaching that for a long time.”

Glenda Price, a task force co-chair with Gilbert and Linda Smith, responded to another concern about whether people would be forced from their homes unwillingly.

“We are very aware of the need to protect the property rights of individuals,” she said. “There is no intent to remove anyone or, in any way, to disenfranchise anyone.”

Soothing words, no doubt sincere. But this municipal bankruptcy promises to be a long, herky-jerky ride, so hold on tight.